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What's on your screen is Flexi is exactly what will be sent to the production manager which is exactly what will be sent to the plotter.At least that's the way it's supposed to work. If you seem to be cutting mysterious lines, have a look at the image in wire frame mode and, for extra credit...

Excuse me there Dr. Physics but the sign weighs what it weighs and the tape has to hold up that much weight no matter what scheme is used in attempt to 'redistribute' this weight. When you use VHB tape to mount something to, say, a door, keep in mind that the tape doesn't stick to the door...

Tell them up front that you'll do the absolute best that you can but you cannot guarantee that the doors will remain unscathed. If that is unacceptable to them then tell them to make their own more satisfactory arrangements to have them removed.

Used properly the math and the software products merely rationalize what you already have in mind as well as allow some degree of repeatability. A price is always more acceptable if it comes as the result of actual calculation and/or software as opposed to one you blow out of your butt. The...

Not a math major, eh? In any equation multiplication and division take precedence over addition and subtraction. Parentheses alter this priority and stuff within them is done first. Attend... Your Example 1 done properly: (12-3)+3*3=9+3*3=9+9=18 Do the subtraction in the parentheses THEN the...

Me too. He was a one off.

OK, here's a method that prices the job by area on a curve where the smaller the job the more per unit of area and the larger the less per unit up to an arbitrary asymptote. The materials and any installation are added to this. If goes like this: First determine the absolute minimum per square...

24 whole hours? Really? Just lock down the carriage, however you do this for your printer, and move the damn thing. Leave the inks, and everything else, right where they are. If you were going to take days/weeks for this move then worry about all of the crap you're worrying about. Not for a...

Always, as in always, create Flexi gradients in CMYK and not in RGB. Flexi gradients in RGB never end up matching anything while CMYK gradients perform orders of magnitude more predictably. Just select the gradient and, in the little color/stoke dialog [whatever it's called officially] select...

As others have noted use plain old clear PVC cement available at any hardware store. The thing to know is that PVC cement creates and actual weld wherein the pieces being glued are fused as opposed to a mere surface bond provided by construction adhesive. Just glue and lightly clamp the...

Or picking your nose or scratching your nether regions.

Just pick a sans-serif with an 'M' that has angled sides and compress it a bit. As inelegantly as has been done with your sample. No one will know.

Don't any of you people have fingernails? Plastic tape of any color, paper tape, whatever tape, just pick a corner up with a fingernail and pull. Tools? Really?

Plain old vanilla card table. Been using one, the same one, for years. Incredibly cheap, ultra light, and the legs fold up so you can toss it in the back of your truck or whatever you're driving. Back at the shop it sits with legs folded against the wall behind the front door.

Twaddle. You can study music, read music, know all the notes, know all the progressions, know all the modes. You can own an instrument and play those notes on it. But that's no sign you're making music. Not by a long shot. You're just playing some notes that are a step above noise. You're merely...

First off a PDF is just a container for other objects, be those objects bitmaps, vector object, text, or what have you. An EPS file is much the same. So what do they want in their fine new PDF file? A vector Image? with text? With text converted to outline? A bitmap? As for their jpg file, just...

If you want to enlarge bitmaps without pixelization then you need to get a package that uses a spline fit algorithm. I use PhotoZoom Pro, there are others. Using this sort of package you can enlarge some pretty nasty images. But what you see is sort of what you get. It won't make anything...

If your cutting multiple images is the error cumulative? In other words does the error get larger the farther away from the origin? If so the it's the plotter's feed calibration, assuming that Sign Warehouse junk has such a thing, or some other mechanical malfeasance. If not the it's probably...

True. Firstly the RIP can conver RGB to CMYK orders of magnitude better than mopst any design software. Secondly, by always printing at at least 4 times the resolution of any bitmap data you get at least 4^16 possible color combinations for each pixel input. Actually far more with variable color...

Words to live by. A machine that both prints and plots usually doesn't do either well. [Cue the howls of righteous indignation and outrage from those who wrangle such tackle]. When you have a printer that prints and a plotter that plots it's a safe assumption that no compromises were made in...